A New York Lawmaker Proposed Charging $3 For Almost Every Package Delivered In The City Because The MTA Is A Gigantic Money Pit
ABC- A controversial proposal to help solve NYC's multi-billion dollar budget problem would add $3 to every non-essential package delivered in the city. The money from the tax would go into bailing out the MTA, which desperately needs $12 billion. The legislation was introduced by Brooklyn Assemblyman Robert Carroll earlier this year. The surcharge would apply to non-essential packages ordered online for delivery, with the exception of those containing food or medicine.
An estimated 1.8 million packages are delivered every day in NYC. The surcharge would raise more than a billion dollars a year for the MTA, which under its proposed budget, may be forced to cut service between 40-50%. Trying to avoid the surcharge would reap benefits too, Carroll said: There would be fewer trucks on the road and less waste if internet companies consolidated orders into fewer boxes.
Kiss, and I cannot stress the next part of this sentence strong enough, my motherfucking grits Bobby Carroll. Taxing the people paying thousands of dollars to live in shoeboxes in the city for their right to get stuff delivered to them in a cardboard box as they continue to work and pay New York City taxes is insane. Out of all the things you can tax people for, packages may be the most fucked up thing of all. Ordering a bunch of shit from Amazon and then opening them is the biggest rush most of us during this pandemic. Pretty much Christmas On Demand. Shit, it doesn't even have to be your own package. Portnoy unboxing shit from his apartment was one of the things that got hundreds of thousands of people through the bullshit of April and May along with Coach Duggs falling from the football heavens. If this tax, or whatever you call it was in place during those dark days, I'm pretty sure Barstool would have been out of business by the end of this Unboxing episode.
To take the money from those convenient boxes of joy and putting it towards the rat-infested shit bomb commonly known as the MTA that has continued to suck in all aspects while raising fares every single time they have a chance is ridiculous. Don't give me the local business spiel either. If New Yorkers want to shop at locally, they will. If they want to save money or time, they will do that too. (Source: Every single kitchen appliance in the city that has been used no more than 10 times). Hipsters will still shop at hipster places, fancy fucks like Large will continue to shop at fancy stores I don't even know the names of, and common people like you and I will shop at bodegas to get everything we need. But don't tax packages of the people living in a city known for wealth and big business.
Speaking of wealth, shout out to Jessica Ramos for being part of this preposterous bill too after she tried to sewer Steve Cohen from buying the Mets then trying to charge city residents with a proposal that fucks regular people so much, you would think the Wilpons thought of it. I actually have to #RE2PECT that kind of politicking.